An 18-year-old gunman killed 18 students and at least one adult at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, on May 24, 2022.
It is the deadliest shooting in an American school since 2018, when 17 people were killed at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, and the second deadliest in an elementary school since the 2012 shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown. , Connecticut. It marks the 27th school shooting this year alone: ​​a total of at least 25 people have been killed in school shootings since January.
If history is any proof, Texas Republican lawmakers, who control the state legislature and are pushing to relax state gun laws ahead of the midterm elections, are unlikely to change course as a result of the Uvalde shooting.
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